Auteurs Quote by Sergio Leone

“If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.”

Sergio Leone

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Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

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I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

Sergio Leone

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It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

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Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of…

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When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I…

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My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

Sergio Leone

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It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most…

Sergio Leone

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

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I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

Sergio Leone

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I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

Sergio Leone

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I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even…

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The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that…

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The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.

Luke Haines

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The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40…

Lloyd Kaufman

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In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only…

D.A. Wallach

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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Park Chan-wook

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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight…

Billy Wilder

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots.…

Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc

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Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

Akiva Goldsman

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Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

Mort Sahl

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People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Harvey Weinstein